I’m sure I speak for all television presentation website owners when I say this: we run our sites in our spare time. We do it because we care, not because it’s our job. We add the material we actually have, when we have time to do it. Please don’t tell us how to run our websites.

Moment of appreciation for the lady who wrapped my eBay parcel. What a perfect job

Here's a video looking at my subrack crates and the custom cards that run in them www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD1S...

so the question is, should I recreate Aertel to go with NMS Ceefax???

🟪 TX | This evening's edition of ITV News Calendar (South) took a rare look behind-the-scenes at the Belmont transmitter, marking the 60th anniversary of transmissions from the mast. >> LINK: youtu.be/vgYe3jJd-vU?...

Er, well I must say this was totally unexpected. Apparently more people are interested in my old junk than I'd have ever thought.

Looking inside an early 80s BBC Audio link transmitter. It transmits on 859.8 (or 854.5) MHz, at around 12 watts. youtu.be/Ia82aHWLI-k

Less fascist-owned data-hoovering slop, and more of this on the internet please 👇

The show continues on Pages From Ceefax. You can still keep an eye on the news, weather and football scores - great for background use. Stream has been up for nearly a year now, if I can hold it together. youtube.com/@AvroVulcanXH607/live

Last couple of hours of Christmas music on Pages From Ceefax. I can't tell what time it will officially "switch over" at, simply because I haven't decided and it depends on what else I'm up to tomorrow. Assume late evening anyway. youtube.com/@AvroVulcanXH607/live

This isn't news to regular users of my online teletext viewer as it's been online for ages, but one of the channels has a service from this evening 40 years ago. This was recovered from a VHS tape and every page painstakingly repaired and turned back into a packet stream zxnet.co.uk/teletext/vie...

Necessity is the mother of invention. (spotted in work)

Massive thanks to @illarterate.bsky.social for the Christmas graphics on Ceefax! nmsceefax.co.uk

Obligatory ~annual photo of Pages From Ceefax central control

Grumpy PC is now in control

Just a reminder that Pages From Ceefax goes all Christmassy with suitably festive music tonight at ten o'clock (GMT). Assuming of course I can persuade my PC to boot. It's like an old diesel engine & needs thoroughly warmed up to have a hope of working. youtube.com/@AvroVulcanXH607/live

Just had a brief scroll through X for the first time in months. Folks, I think we collectively made the right decision.

I got to thinking last night, as one does, about why lately I don't seem to have accomplished anything on the two million projects I have going - and suddenly realised how utterly rediculous my own thought process is. www.nathanmediaservices.co.uk/blether/deci...

It's still a work in progress, but seems stable enough for "public beta", so by popular demand here's a standalone version of the parametric clock generator I recently added to my online teletext viewer: zxnet.co.uk/clock/#templ...

This is the innards of an MPEG-2 coder - the sort one might use to encode video for freeview/freesat. Or at least, may have done 10 years ago - this one was made in 2008 and has since been retired. Rather interesting & rare chance to get a poke inside at what makes it tick.

More exact timing details will be released closer to the time. Most likely 5 minutes before it goes live...

Pages from Ceefax will begin its annual Christmas Tape outing on the 20th of December - continuing until the 3rd of January. Thanks for your continued support, and I hope regular listeners will enjoy. www.youtube.com/@AvroVulcanX...

I spent today extracting image data from some interesting eprom dumps... Figuring out the fairly simple addressing, and shuffling everything around and recombining into a single file that could be decoded as a YUV video frame. 🙂

It's cold outside, but not to worry - I'll fire me clock up for heat.

Ceefax used to be a big source of news for me before I had a laptop and internet access (and wayyyy before I had a smartphone) so this really takes me back 😅 nmsceefax.co.uk by @nmsni.co.uk

yet another reminder of what we miss from old(er) YouTube. Still shamelessly rewatching these occasionally.

So yeah, third major cloud provider to mess up in 2 months. I say again... Why aren't YOU self-hosting?

I'm getting tired of saying this, but in times of global "someone else's computer" outages, Ceefax remains online from a noisy server in someone's attic. nmsceefax.co.uk

I have designed some SDI receivers to continue my Interference With Video Via FPGA. Turns out anything involving SDI is annoyingly Expensive, but anyway...

Another massive "cloud" (someone else's PC) outage. Ceefax still unaffected. Why aren't YOU self-hosting things yet?

Apparently JLCPCB send you the X-Rays of PCBs assembled with BGA chips. Rather cool. You can see the innards of the chip if you look closely. Please ignore how much my PCB designery sucks.

"other clocks are, of course, available" 😃

If you're still up, why not watch the sheer wonder of the Ceefax clock ticking over to 2am twice in one night? www.youtube.com/@AvroVulcanX...

A few weeks ago @nmsni.co.uk asked "when can we have clocks on the viewer? 🤣" and it's been nagging away at me since... Lots of annoying timezone issues and customisation feature creep later... zxnet.co.uk/teletext/vie... Heavily inspired by the SVG recreations on @aswiseman.bsky.social's site!

I've wanted to learn about FPGAs for quite a while - here is a selection of silly experiments done to live* video in an FPGA. Coming up with lots of daft ideas to build with it and gradually getting a vague idea of how this stuff works. *delayed by 4ish video lines

In all seriousness, this sort of thing is why I self-host - I hate having to rely on someone else for a service I can do myself - and this way I only rely on my ISP, electric crowd, and my old server... 😅

Ceefax remains unaffected. nmsceefax.co.uk

Trying and failing again to think of a use for all the teletext databroadcast code I wrote for vbit2. As @nmsni.co.uk aptly put it earlier "Still trying to find a problem for our solution" 😆

Have got a terrific ornament for beside my desk. This is the mimic panel for part of the old BBC Radio distribution system, NICAM-3. Yup, NICAM, the same thing later used to send digital stereo audio alongside analogue TV. I've just wired it to light up permanently & look cool.

Next time you hear an audiophile talk about their gold plated cables & 192kHz DACs, remember this is the sort of thing actual radio studios run on:

Several matches in progress tonight on nmsceefax.co.uk P331

People sometimes ask about Ceefax stats: - The current instance of the PFC stream has had 42,400 views in its 248 day runtime - or around 170 per day - About 130 people per day read Ceefax via the interactive viewer - Around 20 people use Ceefax on a Raspberry Pi (via feeds.nmsni.co.uk) every day